<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63773]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. If FERC accepts this settlement and thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40281]]></link><description><![CDATA[This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. If FERC accepts this settlement and thereby punishes Maine for restructuring, it will be a clear message that they have abandoned the nation's experiment with electric power sector deregulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19182]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the nice thing is that we're talking about modest exercise, not two hours in the gym every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32339]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the nice thing is that we're talking about modest exercise, not two hours in the gym every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58142]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The critical scholar is not committed, within the area of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  The critical scholar is not committed, within the area of his research, to accepting the Church's presuppositions about Jesus, but he should not be committed to accepting naturalistic presuppositions either. If he does accept the latter, then the results of his research will in all probability contradict the beliefs of the Church, but this is because he has begged the question from the start. In examining, for instance, the evidence for the virginal conception [of Jesus], if he begins with the presupposition that such an event is impossible he will end with the same conclusion; if he begins with the presupposition that it is possible he may end with the conclusion that the evidence for it is good or that it is bad or that it is inconclusive. This is as far as scholarship can take him. The Christian will accept the virginal conception as part of the Church's faith. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit:  For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,   We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate,    Which in success oft disinherits,     For spurious causes, noblest merits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, the government must devote its energy to the rescue and recovery of the affected region and we cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, the government must devote its energy to the rescue and recovery of the affected region and we cannot thank or pay the brave rescue workers enough for the lives they've already saved, ... But we cannot ignore how the federal government has failed to protect the health and safety of its citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52016]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium on the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you put bulky items in the alley, you'll get a letter and a citation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it inside as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it inside as much as we usually do. We wanted to make it a point to go inside out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think the market is ready to tip, and when a market tips, it can accelerate very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think the market is ready to tip, and when a market tips, it can accelerate very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Welter (the OSAA executive director) told me they were getting a hearings officer ready to go (today) if an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Welter (the OSAA executive director) told me they were getting a hearings officer ready to go (today) if an appeal is filed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still the Lord accomplished his work through them alike when he broke the bloody scepters of arrogant kings and when he overturned intolerable governments. Let the princes hear and be afraid. But we must, in the meantime, be very careful not to despise or violate that authority of magistrates, full of venerable majesty, which God has established by the weightiest decrees, even though it may reside with the most unworthy men, who defile it as much as they can with their own wickedness. For, if the correction of unbridled despotism is the Lord's to avenge, let us not at once think that it is entrusted to us, to whom no command has been given except to obey and suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/402]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may be claim'd again which was but lent,   And should be yielded with no discontent,    Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,     That it was left us to enjoy it long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When it comes to a climax like that, it makes it all worthwhile. You reflect back to when they weren't in shape and not doing the little things. When you see it all come together at the state meet, it is very rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock  The meat it feeds on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23168]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock  The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss   Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;    But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er     Who dotes, yet doubts--suspects, yet strongly loves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29573]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,   The milkwhite is the slae.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11665]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[from a legal point of view away from the political influences of the United States and Britain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28918]]></link><description><![CDATA[from a legal point of view away from the political influences of the United States and Britain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16960]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves where the cavemen dwell;    Then a sense of law and beauty,     And a face turned from the clod--      Some call it Evolution,       And others call it God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains may break; But the deaf heart, the dumb by choice, The laggard soul that will not wake, The guilt that scorns to be forgiven -- These baffle e'en the spells of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensationand specificity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensationand specificity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7477]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him. When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. It is so with Christ. In this world our contact with Him is shadowy, for we can only see through a glass darkly. It is spasmodic, for we are poor creatures and cannot live always on the heights. But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of games in a short stretch here, and this should certainly be something that brings out a spark in us, no doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun with light umbertouches vined cucumberThe more he ticklesthe more there are pickles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun with light umbertouches vined cucumberThe more he ticklesthe more there are pickles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your prices have historically been the low prices in the state. It's painful sometimes when it changes that much, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your prices have historically been the low prices in the state. It's painful sometimes when it changes that much, but you've enjoyed the best prices for about a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, Horatio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20531]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, Horatio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60780</guid></item></channel></rss>